We have a "Live Stage" feature on both Networked_Performance (http://turbulence.org/blog/) and Networked_Music_Review (http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review/). Events are organized by time and place. I'm hoping to make the category searchable by country/city soon, but in the meantime you can browse the "Live Stage" category for performances, lectures, conferences, festivals, exhibition openings, etc.

Flou (pronounced "flew") is not exactly a game; you do fly a ship through space, but you cannot shoot anything, score points, or win or lose. The focus, rather, is on the soundtrack: as you navigate through a 3D world and zoom through objects in space, you add loops and apply effects to an ever-evolving musical mix. You can also design your own worlds to fly through and share them with other Flou users.

Flou is a 2007 commission of <a href="http://new-radio.org">New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.</a> for <a href="http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review">Networked_Music_Review</a>. It was made possible with funding from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

BIOGRAPHIES

<a href="http://www.jasonfreeman.net">Jason Freeman</a> uses new technology and unconventional notation to break down barriers between composers, performers, and listeners, creating music that "stands as an example of the Web's mind-expanding possibilities" (Billboard) and helps to "bring composition into the Xbox age" (Wired). Recent projects include "Flock", a full-evening performance for saxophone quartet, dancers, and audience participation commissioned by Carnival Center for the Performing Arts in Miami; "Graph Theory", a solo violin and web-based work commissioned by Turbulence; "iTunes Signature Maker", a software artwork commissioned by Rhizome; and "Glimmer", an audience-participation piece commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra. Freeman received his B.A. in music from Yale University and his M.A. and D.M.A. in composition from Columbia University. He is currently an assistant professor at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, where he teaches in the Music Department in the College of Architecture.

The students in Freeman's Networked Music course at Georgia Tech (Andrew Beck, Xiang Cao, Mark Godfrey, Jagadeeswaran Jayaprakash, Al Matthews, Rachel Ponder, Alex Rae, and Sriram Viswanathan) are currently pursuing M.S. degrees in music technology, digital media, and human-computer interaction, and they have diverse backgrounds as composers and performers of experimental and popular music, as computer scientists, and as engineers. Over the course of the fall 2007 semester, they collaborated to develop the concept for "Flou", to design its user interface, visual components, and sound worlds, and to write, test, and deploy the software. They are currently creating a live-performance version of the work for presentation in spring 2008.

Turbulence Commission: "MYPOCKET" by Burak Arikanhttp://turbulence.org/works/mypocketNeeds a Java and Flash enabled browser; best on Firefox or Safari; optionalRSS reader for Transaction Feed

"MYPOCKET" discloses the artist's personal financial records to the world byexploring and revealing essential patterns in the daily transactions of hisbank account. These are the records that we usually keep secret, whereasfinancial institutions intensively analyze them to score our credibility.Archived on the site, the artist's two years of spending history is analyzedby the custom software to predict future spending; these predictionssometimes determine his future choices, creating a system in which both thesoftware and the artist adapt to one another. Influenced by today'stechno-cultural milieu, "MYPOCKET" presents a hybrid interface to a livingphysical/digital process.

"MYPOCKET" is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (akaEther-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with fundingfrom the Jerome Foundation.

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Burak Arikan is an artist and designer creating networked systems thatevolve with the interactions of people and machines. He shows the instancesof these systems through diverse media including prints, animation,software, electronics, and physical materials. His work has recently beenshown at Ars Electronica, Venice Biennale, and Art Interactive in Cambridge.

Arikan completed his master's degree at the MIT Media Laboratory in thePhysical Language Workshop (PLW) led by John Maeda. While at MIT, he pursuedresearch exploring systems that address the transition from connectivity tocollectivity in the context of creative expression. Sparked by thisresearch, Arikan initiated the "Open I/O" platform for artists and designersto collaborate through composing distributed electronic objects and spaceover the Internet.

Prior to MIT, he worked as an information architect and visual designer inthe United States and Turkey. He received an MA degree in VisualCommunication Design from Istanbul Bilgi University in 2004, and a BS degreein Civil Engineering from Yildiz Technical University in 2001.

The Wa-KOW! Collective was founded on the idea that the distinctions betweenartistic media are problematic and productive rather than essential. Theirprimary goal is to find ways to blur those boundaries. The group--made up ofpoets, musicians, and photographers--works in and around the borders betweentext, sound, and image, exploring the relations between the three media andthe nature of each type of media. Their artistic process evolved throughorganic collaboration. They visited specific sites in Tulsa and collectedraw materials through writing, audio recording, and photography. The groupthen altered, edited, and arranged these materials, meanwhile incorporatingsamples from songs, films, texts and images related to Tulsa. The result ofthis collaboration is "Tulsita," an online flash-based environment thatexplores the cultural, ethical, and aesthetic experiences they have hadliving in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

BIOGRAPHIES

NATHAN HALVERSON works with found, sampled and original audio using variousmethods and processes to produce new sounds. His work combines elements offilm, literature and popular culture which he uses to investigate theboundaries that divide and connect various media, their reception and ourperception of them. A CD of his work, Nurse Shark, was released in September2007 on the Peapod label.

G. MATTHEW JENKINS teaches poetry and writing at The University of Tulsa.His writing explores the visual form of language and the page as a unit ofmeasure. He has worked with several visual artists, including painter SheilaGiolitti. Their collaborations appeared at the Old Dominion UniversityLiterary Festival and at the Hampton University Museum. Flash has becomehis latest poetic medium.

DAVID GOLDSTEIN teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature at YorkUniversity. He is the author of the poetry chapbook Been Raw Diction(Dusie), and his poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals,including The Paris Review, Jubilat, Typo, Pinstripe Fedora, Alice BlueReview, and Epoch.

MINDY STRICKE is a photographer, artist and entrepreneur whose photographshave been exhibited throughout the US and Canada, most recently at theSafe-T Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Her portraits and other work have beenfeatured in national and international publications including the New YorkTimes, Time, Time Out New York, Newsweek, PDNedu and Voce. In 2008 her workwill be seen in Click! Photography Changes Everything, an exhibit curated bythe Smithsonian Photography Initiative.

"You're Not My Father" is composed of a sequence of recreations of a 10second scene from the television show "Full House," overlaid with soundloops from the scene's original music. The crews who re-shot the scene wererecruited through Internet message boards and Craigslist; each was paid$150. Instructions for shooting the scene and delivering the footage wereissued to the crews. To-date, the project includes participants from Austin,Cincinnati, Chicago, Dallas, Denton, London, and San Francisco. You can readmore about the process here: http://tinyurl.com/2qd3nw

Although the commission money has been exhausted, Slocum is still acceptingsubmissions. If you are interested in participating, read the PDF documenton the website. Your footage will be added to the video sequence online andexhibited in future gallery exhibitions.

"You're Not My Father" is included in Slocum's solo show "More House" whichopens tonight at Dunn and Brown Contemporary, 5020 Tracy Street, Dallas,Texas.

"You're Not My Father" is a 2007 commission of New Radio and PerformingArts, Inc. for Networked_Music_Review. It was made possible with fundingfrom the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York StateAttorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

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Paul Slocum is a musician and new media artist living in Dallas. Computersand computer culture are often the medium and subject of his work. Some ofhis projects are "The Dot Matrix Synth", an 80's dot matrix printer withre-programmed firmware to transform it into a musical instrument, "TheCentury Callback Project", a phone number that calls you back 8 times in acentury, and "The Time-Lapse Homepage", a video made with HTML. He is alsohalf of the "Tree Wave" project that creates music and video with obsoleteassembly-language-programmed computer and video game gear. Paul is thedirector and co-founder of "And/Or Gallery" in Dallas, a gallery thatspecializes in new media artwork. Some of Paul's performances andexhibitions include Transitio MX in Mexico City, The New Museum ofContemporary Art, Deitch Projects, and Eyebeam in New York, Le ConfortModerne in France, README 2005 in Denmark, and The Liverpool Biennial.